{"title":"Multiple Access Methods utilized to extend Operational Life Time of Wireless Sensor Nodes","authors":"T. Wendt, L. Reindl","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519049","url":null,"abstract":"The power consumption in wireless sensor networks is one of the main issues when designing sensor nodes. Furthermore the available energy density of batteries for a given battery size and the difficulty of recharging possibilities limits the life cycle of sensor nodes. Multiple access methods will help to expand the operational life cycle of sensor nodes by reducing their power consumption. The focus of this work is to evaluate multiples access methods wake-up solutions for wireless sensor applications. A custom demonstration platform to perform theses evaluations and measurements has been developed. The current measurements have shown that multiple access wake-up methods in conjunction with switching of not needed components will extend the life cycle of sensor nodes immense.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125184794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geng Shu-qin, Wan Jin-hui, Zuo Lei, Hou Li-gang, Wu Wu-chen
{"title":"A Low-power Active RFID Portable Reader System","authors":"Geng Shu-qin, Wan Jin-hui, Zuo Lei, Hou Li-gang, Wu Wu-chen","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519038","url":null,"abstract":"Power saving is an important parameter in portable system design, which is normally addressed by considering the energy consumption in each individual component of system. But system level approach is a more promising way for power saving, especially in embedded system design. A design of portable radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, using system level power reduction method and working at 433/868/915 MHz ISM frequency, is presented in this paper. The system embeds a SOC (system on chip) peripheral driving circuits to simplify the complex driving circuits of traditional LCD display. Besides, a developed software tool helps to improve the system performance, such as the address matching, anti-collision, checking, identification, real time calculation and data display. The proposed system has advantages of simple structure, low cost, and low power loss.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133036963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System-Level Modeling Environment: MLDesigner","authors":"A. Agarwal, C. Iskander, R. Shankar, G. Hamza-Lup","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519020","url":null,"abstract":"System modeling has the potential to enhance system design productivity by providing a platform for system performance evaluations. This model must be designed at an abstract level, hiding system details. However, it must represent any subsystem or its components at any level of specification details as needed. In order to model such a system, we will need to combine various models-of-computation (MOC). MOCs provide a framework to model various algorithms and activities, while accounting for and exploiting concurrency and synchronization aspects. Along with supporting various MOCs, a modeling environment should also support a well developed library. In this paper, we have explored and compared various system modeling environments. MLDesigner is one such modeling environment that supports a well developed library and integrates various MOCs. We discuss the process of system modeling with MLDesigner. We further present an abstract model of a network-on-chip (NoC) in MLDesigner and show latency results for various customizable parameters for this model.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133312336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Issa, Jean-Charles Gregoire, Y. Belala, J. Wong
{"title":"3G Embedded Communication System for Medical Applications","authors":"O. Issa, Jean-Charles Gregoire, Y. Belala, J. Wong","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4518991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4518991","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing availability of a variety of wireless access technologies provides users with access to critical content and applications. In medical applications, reliability and ubiquity must be guaranteed by new communication technologies in order to favour their adoption. Ensuring a satisfactory quality of service and a high degree of availability requires a reliable delivery system that optimally brings together several wireless access systems and medical-based platforms into an efficient trial product to satisfy operational needs. This paper proposes a novel system architecture to support adaptive real-time medical applications, possibly multimedia-based, over various wireless technologies. The system addresses several issues associated with the successful operation of applications running over heterogeneous networks. First, it defines a layer of abstraction to isolate the applications from the actual transport system. Second, it uses a message-based protocol to improve the reliability and security of the communications over different access systems. Finally, it includes adaptation mechanisms for various system statuses. A real-life healthcare application capable of transmitting voice, video and medical data simultaneously is used for validation. Experimental results are reported that demonstrate the viability of the approach.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114710546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pervasive Computing: Migrating to Mobile Devices: A Case Study","authors":"Shihong Huang, J. Mangs","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519056","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of pervasive computing is that computers and their applications will seamlessly integrate into our daily lives. There are many areas of research in pervasive computing such as context-awareness, device and network heterogeneity issues, power consumption, and connectivity. Each area intends to address problems such as how devices interpret their environment, and how devices communicate with each other. While there is much potential for developers to create pervasive applications from scratch, it is much more likely that they are able to reuse existing applications and documentation for mobile devices. This paper addresses the specific problems of porting pervasive applications on mobile devices in general as well as the unique problems presented by mobile devices which restrict implementation methods. It proposes a framework based on model driven engineering concepts for developing software for restrictive pervasive systems. The paper also considers the implications of the preliminary framework on the iPhone, which forces developers to work through its Safari browser.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124239273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profiling Complex Systems","authors":"R. Stevens","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519017","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Defense, like other government agencies and indeed the global business community, faces increasingly complex challenges that cannot be met by stand-alone systems. This has led to growing reliance on increasingly interoperable and interdependent systems that combine multiple organizational and functional capabilities to achieve and overarching mission. This is the motivation for developing systems- of-systems, enterprise systems, and even extended enterprise systems. This paper focuses on the engineering of this class of systems: a process that demands consideration of increasing scale, the rapid pace of change of the underlying technologies, the complexity of system interactions, and, perhaps most important, shared ownership and control. We hypothesize that engineering these systems is inherently different from engineering large-scale but essentially deterministic systems. Decisions about the system(s) under development have to consider not only the technical and programmatic dimensions but also the political, operational and economic contexts. This paper presents a diagnostic tool for profiling complexity and uncertainty in large scale system engineering developments and provides some lessons learned from its application. On the basis of these insights, we propose an approach to tailoring engineering and acquisition strategies and practices to the specific circumstances at hand.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123282780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System-Level Modeling of a NoC-Based H.264 Decoder","authors":"A. Agarwal, C. Iskander, H. Kalva, R. Shankar","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519008","url":null,"abstract":"Networks-on-chip (NoC) are expected to play a key role in future embedded systems. A NoC-based system has the potential to support concurrent processing, in both software and hardware. This can however lead to concurrency issues. We present a multiprocessor system modeling and performance evaluation approach that addresses concurrency. We illustrate our methodology by mapping a H.264 decoder onto a 4 x 3 mesh- based NoC architecture. We show latency, area, and power consumption results for this NoC architecture abstracted from its FPGA implementation.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127714923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information Assurance and Open Architecture Integrated Modular Avionics","authors":"D. Pierce, J. Littlefield-Lawwill","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519034","url":null,"abstract":"The integrated modular avionics (IMA) approach to avionics employs a complex system of systems (SoS) to realize military and/or aerospace solutions. When the IMA architecture is augmented with SoS-wide security features, it is difficult to analyze its information assurance (IA) properties, unless there is some rigor applied to the process. This paper addresses the difficulties associated with analyzing IA properties in a notional IMA architecture that requires them. A whole-part compositional approach is taken in the analysis methods utilized herein in order to mitigate the complexities of otherwise necessary holistic methods.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128042612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Programmatics of Acquisition in Systems of Systems","authors":"J.D. Smith, B. C. Meyers","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519051","url":null,"abstract":"Large, complex systems development has always been challenging, even when the \"only\" things a program manager had to worry about were cost, schedule, and performance within a single program. The emergence of new operational concepts like network-centric operations, greatly expanded use of joint and combined operations, and rampant growth in system complexity has led to the prevalence of interoperable systems of systems as the preferred solution to providing operational capability. Unfortunately, the \"programmatics\" (i.e., the relationships between-and orchestration of activities across-all lifecycle aspects, including program management, system acquisition, development, transition/ deployment, sustainment, and operational use) are not well understood in systems of systems and, as a result, system-centric approaches are frequently employed, often with disastrous consequences. To better understand the root causes for these problems, and identify potential mitigation strategies, this paper introduces some simple guidelines-in the form of a set of laws, or meta-behavioral descriptions and a corresponding reasoning framework-to assist program managers with systems-of-systems programmatics.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121371461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimizing the Environmental Impact of the Envisaged Expansion in Power Generation in Main Interconnected System of Oman","authors":"A. Malik","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519042","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a study carried out to estimate the DSM energy saving potential in commercial, and government/institutional sectors of Oman and evaluates its impact on generation capacity, energy and pollutants savings in the main interconnected system. The end-use (lighting and air-conditioning) energy consumption data have been collected in two major segments of the commercial sector for simplicity. The study has found that due to DSM the capacity saving is about 300 MW, the overall energy saving is about 23.7 TWh and CO2 equivalent saving is about 13 million tons for the whole planning horizon. The total avoided cost in generation and capacity saving is about 346 million dollars.","PeriodicalId":403208,"journal":{"name":"2008 2nd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124962737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}